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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Reading
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout fundamentally alters your relationship with reading. Drawing on a 2024 study from the University of Texas at Austin showing that chronic stress reduces reading comprehension by 24 percent, they unpack why even avid readers find themselves unable to focus on books during burnout. Lucas shares how his own habit of devouring two books a month collapsed during a demanding project, and Luna describes the experience of re-reading the same paragraph five times without absorbing a word. They discuss how burnout shifts…
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